Blogs
Methodology: Patent Landscaping in the Indian Mobile Device Market
- November 10, 2014
Through the patent landscaping exercise, we have identified patents pertaining to Internet-enabled mobile devices sold in India for USD 100 or less. The findings from this exercise are being used to develop legal strategies to reduce patent-based impediments to the widespread and rapid proliferation of this beneficial technology throughout India. The research methodology adopted for the patent landscaping exercise has been delineated here. This document is a work in progress.
Read more →Odia Wikisource Goes Live!
- November 07, 2014
Odia netizens have more than one reason to celebrate this festive season.
Read more →Odia Littérateur Ramakrushna Nanda's 4 Books Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
- November 06, 2014
Children literature in Odia language went through an ennoblement after the intervention of Ramakrushna Nanda's writings.
Read more →Bharat Majhi Writings Now Available Under a Creative Commons License
- November 06, 2014
Before the advent of Odia Wikisource becoming live, Centre for Internet and Society's Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K) got in touch with notable Odia author Bharat Majhi for bringing his writings on the Internet.
Read more →More Than 40 Million People Await the Launch of Odia Wikisource
- November 04, 2014
Speakers of Odia will soon have mountains of books to read online in their mother tongue, following the launch of the Odia Wikisource, which will make accessible many rare books that have entered the public domain.
Read more →Letter to the Prime Minister on Indo-US Bilateral Relations on Intellectual Property
- November 03, 2014
This is a letter that many organizations sent to the Prime Minister. The Centre for Internet and Society was one of the signatories.
Read more →ನಿರಂಜನರ ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆ
- November 03, 2014
ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿರಂಜನರ ಬಹುಪಾಲು ಕೃತಿಗಳು CC-BY-SA 4.0 ಪರವಾನಗಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮರುಪ್ರಕಟಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿವೆಯೆಂದು ಸಿಐಎಸ್-ಎ೨ಕೆಯ ಸಹಯೋಗದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಬಳಗವು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹರ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತದೆ.
Read more →Converting from nonUnicode (Nudi, Baraha, ...) font encoding to Unicode Kannada
- October 31, 2014
People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Most of the usage of Kannada on computers was limited to the DTP arena.
Read more →Tulu Wikipedia Workshop cum Editathon at Udupi
- October 31, 2014
A three-day programme was held at Udupi from October 15 to 17, 2014 with an aim to increase the presence of Tulu in the online world. The first day comprised the inauguration programme and a workshop to understand the Wiki markup. The next two days were devoted to the edit-a-thon where participants added articles to Tulu Wikipedia.
Read more →Guidelines for Examination of Computer Related Inventions: Mapping the Stakeholders' Response
- October 29, 2014
The procedure and tests surrounding software patenting in India have remained ambiguous since the Parliament introduced the term “per se” through the Patent (Amendment) Act, 2002. In 2013, the Indian Patent Office released Draft Guidelines for the Examination of Computer Related Inventions, in an effort to clarify some of the ambiguity. Through this post, CIS intern, Shashank Singh, analyses the various responses by the stakeholders to these Guidelines and highlights the various issues put forth in the responses.
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